Saturday, November 3, 2012

The Earth's resources belong to the Earth (#1373)

We are just guests here on this planet Earth. We do not own it or decide how it will exist. Our planet is it's own system and we are just fellow travelers who are fortunate enough to exist on it. I am not saying the Earth has a mind of it's own, but what I am saying is that the Earth is an incredibly complex ecosystem that has no fully known predictability to it. Aside from that reality, the Earth is also a place where we have designed our society and what we think of as our's within this society is predicated upon extracting resources from our planet and calling them our own. Now it is true that we have devised or defaulted to a paradigm where ownership has rights, but remember, we are only borrowing our ownership rights from the orb we inhabit. Now the question becomes what is the form that our individual and collective ownership of the Earth's borrowed resources look like in utilization? We have thus far allowed our society to take from the Earth, in a heavily uneven distribution, rationed by a winner take all dynamic. Far be it from me to call this present form of distribution "fair", however I will call it illogical. We tend to place an emotional attachment to "gimme it's mine" as an ideal as opposed to creating a allocation system devoid of a stratified level of importance. in other words, instead of building society that has ever revolving rotational responsibilities, we have allowed a system to form that excludes and segregates, based upon boundaries and mental conceptions outside of equality and social justice. A broken system is still a broken system regardless of whether it kind of, sort of, works. Our Earth places no restrictions on itself and it is as far as can logically be discerned inanimate, how much less we are in practice and yet we know we are animate.

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